Predicatory

Quick meaning: Predicatory is an adjective meaning affirmative; making a clear assertion or statement of praise, especially one with religious or moral implications.

Meaning

affirmative; making a clear assertion or statement of praise, especially one with religious or moral implications.

More Meanings

1. Forming an ontologically neutral predicate; implying no new information or qualities.

Example Sentences

Hex's sermon clearly shows a lack of predicatory features, although, according to the colophon, the preacher himself wrote it.

In a 'predicatory' sense, whatever we say in our natural language about an object defines a property: an object has the property of being such that 'x'.·

In Bird's (2016, 2018) phrasing, we understand dispositions as 'predicatory' properties, to which we are 'ontologically uncommitted' , imbuing them with 'no metaphysical baggage'.

The just degrees of callings must be herein duly observed; whether in a public way, as pastors of congregations ; or in a private way , as masters of families : whether in the schools , in a mere grammatical way ; or in the church , in a predicatory

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include affirmative, predicatable, asseverative, positive, promissive, predicable.

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